If someone pressed charges against you in St Louis and you lived in detroit can the police come and get you?
meaning can they come to the house you live in and bring you back to the town the charges are brought up on? and what if there was no witnesses for the crime that supposedly happened?
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Depends on what the crime was if it was something petty then they probaably won't bother. If it was a felony they may come and get you or most likely, you will get pulled over or confronted regarding something else by yhe cops in Detroit and they will see a warrant for you in St. Louis and if Missouri is willing to have you extradited to face the charges then you will be extradited.
The Detroit police would get you and send you back to St. Louis to answer the charges. If they had no evidence of your crime, they would not bring charges against you in the first place. Get a lawyer, turn yourself in, don't try to hide, that never works.
Article IV, Section 2(2) of the United States Constitution requires states to assist each other in capturing "fugitives" who leave one state and go to another. Upon appropriate request (typically what is called a "Governor's warrant"), the state in which the defendant is found must deliver him to the state in which he is charged.
Most states have statutes authorizing police to arrest based on an out-of-state warrant and hold the defendant as if the warrant had been issued in that state for a reasonable period of time to allow the paper work for a Governor's warrant to be completed.
The only issue in a proceeding on a Governor's warrant is whether the person in custody is the person named in the Governor's warrant. The merits of the charge are to be decided back in the state in which the charge was filed not in the state where the defendant is located.
If there are is no evidence tying a defendant to the charge, that charge will probably be dismissed once the defendant appears (or they may decline to complete the paperwork to bring the defendant back).
If you know that there is a warrant for you in another state, the best thing that you can do is contact and hire a lawyer in that state to represent you in that case and have that lawyer make arrangements for you to return to surrender yourself on that warrant and post bond.
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